Comment by eatonphil

Hey Phil! Also you're 100% right. I should use a different word than scale. I was meaning scale in the sense that they "scale" durability and availability. But obviously it sounds like I say they are scaling performance.

I've changed the wording to "They are designed to keep a set of stateful nodes that maintain connectivity to one another in sync.". Thank you!

I’ll nitpick you back: if done correctly, consensus can have quite positive scaling consensus groups can have quite a positive impact on tail latency. As the membership size gets bigger, the expectation on the tail latency of the committing quorum goes down assuming independence and any sort of fat tailed distribution for individual participants.